Sentence examples for as abandon from inspiring English sources

The ogne in Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate clearly refers to "hope" rather than to "ye" and should therefore properly be translated as "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"—an altogether more terrifying injunction than your interpretation.

South London producer Jamie Smith is himself a frequent Boiler Room star, and the sense of the dancefloor as a place of observation as much as abandon informs much of his often outstanding music.

The composer Aaron Copland said he didn't finish compositions so much as abandon them.

The home front's recoiling at the war, which killed more than 58,000 U.S. soldiers, did not celebrate so much as abandon returning troops.

But their hinterlands – the settlements strung along smoky valleys and perched on the oily river's edge – began to look as abandoned as goldrush towns.

Sitting there, I felt as abandoned as that ball lying on the floor.

"They sometimes see themselves as abandoned women.

The law views such DNA as "abandoned".

As well as abandoning their own cases on Friday, barristers will refuse to accept returns.

Mr. Piazza, however, described the archive as abandoned, and called the complaint "fictitious".

Israeli Jews describe the houses of Ein Hod as "abandoned" Arab properties.